Jimmy Neutron wrote:
>
> I just put a new computer together.
>
> The probles is that Bios (Phoenix Awardbios v. 6.00 PC) does not recognise the
> IDE HD. I've restored bios defaults (as described in the mb manual).
>
> The HD is a fully working (I took it from another computer) IBM Deskstar IDE hd
> (not SATA). The motherboard is Abit AB9 Pro.
>
> Here's what happens at bios load time:
>
> - a short message "Jmicron Technology PCIE to raid ... blah blah" and below is
> "HDD0: IBM DTL 307045 press Ctrl-J to enter Raid set up"
> If I enter raid set up the HD is fully recognised there with all info on cylinder
> etc.
>
> - then Award bios boots up. It reports in "Standard CMOS features" all IDE
> channels as "None".
>
> but in another section "Hard disk priority" is lists "1: SCSI-0: IBM DTLA ..."
>
> The HD is connected to the first and only IDE connector and the HD hums as it
> should.
>
> What gives? I'm baffled. The computer has just the hd and VGA card + keyboard and
> mouse so there should be no conflicts.
Only Southbridge hosted drives show in the main BIOS screen.
The newer Intel chipsets only have SATA and have no IDE port.
Thus the motherboard maker includes a Jmicron part, a separate
controller chip. That is for the convenience of customers who
still own PATA (ribbon cable) drives - in particular there
are still a lot of CD/DVD drives that need the ribbon cable.
Separate controller chips have their own BIOS module. Frequently,
this is a RAID BIOS, as the controller supports some flavor of
soft RAID. When you use the appropriate key combination to open
whatever BIOS the Jmicron chip has, you may see info on the drive
there. Also, there can be a detection phase where the separate
BIOS module for the separate controller, lists the detected drives.
The detection phase doesn't need a key pressed, to display a little
info about the connected drives.
All you need to do, is:
1) Figure out how to set the boot order.
2) Find a CDROM/DVD drive that you can boot the machine with.
Then you'll be able to boot the Windows install CD. Your CD/DVD
may end up sharing the ribbon cable with your IDE drive.
3) At the appropriate time, press "F6" during the install,
and install whatever driver is included for the Jmicron
controller. That would allow you to install the OS on
the Jmicron hosted IDE drive.
Having the boot drive or your CD/DVD on the separate controller
is not going to be nearly as seamless as if it was plugged to
the Intel Southbridge. But that is the way Intel wants it.
If you are attempting to "transplant" the boot drive from
another computer, you'll need to do a "repair install".
The "repair install" will have all the same issues as a normal
install, in terms of pressing F6 and installing a driver.
There is no way your boot drive is going to be able to boot
from the Jmicron controller, even if you happened to have the
Microsoft driver for IDE installed on the transplanted boot
drive. At minimum you'll need to do the repair install, press
F6, and install a driver of some sort for the Jmicron chip.
One issue with add-in controllers, is whether they support
ATAPI devices (packet interface devices like optical drives).
There have been controllers in the past, like the ITE PATA
controllers, that have the odd issue with supporting boot.
I hope the Jmicron people have done a better job of supporting
any ATAPI devices you are using.
ATAPI is mentioned here, but not in any detail. Notice that
the supported operating systems don't include Win9X/ME and
Win2K/WinXP or newer would be needed.
http://www.jmicron.com/JMB363.html
Paul
Bios sees and does not see HD (enigma) 
Linear Mode
